Pig (dice) - Jeopardy Dice Games

Pig is one of a family of dice games called jeopardy dice games (Reiner Knizia. Dice Games Properly Explained. Elliot Right-Way Books, Brighton Road, Lower Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 6TD UK, 1999). For jeopardy dice games, the dominant type of decision is whether or not to jeopardize previous gains by rolling for potential greater gains. Most jeopardy dice games can be further subdivided into two categories: jeopardy race games and jeopardy approach games. In jeopardy race games, the object is to be the first to meet or exceed a goal score (e.g. Pig, Pass the Pigs, Cosmic Wimpout, Can't Stop). In jeopardy approach games, the object is to most closely approach a goal score without exceeding it (e.g. Twenty-One (die variant of Blackjack), Macao (R. Knizia. Dice Games Properly Explained. 1999)).